A LEADER of the Aceh chapter of the Islamic United Development Party has a telling anecdote to tell about Teungku Daud Beureueh: I will never forget his anger when I said that it was better to accept Dr. Mansyurs invitation to attend the All-Sumatra Conference. He hit me with his cane saying: How else will we get a nation that is explicitly based on Belief in God?

History of course goes on to record that the Nation of East Sumatra failed in its e